title: Highly chemoselective Rauhut-Currier reaction between maleimides and enones and dual phosphine-mediated one-pot synthesis of bicyclic and polycyclic skeletons.
abstract: A highly chemoselective phosphine-catalyzed Rauhut-Currier reaction between maleimides and enones has been realized under very mild conditions, affording the corresponding cross-coupling products in moderate to excellent yields. On the basis of this reaction, an efficient dual phosphine-mediated one-pot synthesis of bicyclic and polycyclic compounds containing a cyclopenta[c]pyrrole skeleton has been accordingly developed, which features a tandem sequence of intermolecular Rauhut-Currier reaction and intramolecular Wittig reaction.
authors.affiliation: The State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Synergetic Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), and Department of Chemistry, Nankai University , 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, PR China.
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jianfang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Zhengjie
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: He